an inland department of France, part of the old province of Limousin, is bounded N. by the departments of Haute-Vienne and Creuse, E. by Puy-de-Dôme and Cantal, S. by Lot, and W. by Dordogne. Area 2276 square miles. The surface of the country is generally mountainous; but in the southern and western parts are some districts of low land. The soil is for the most part poor and thin; the high lands being covered with heath, and the low lands but moderately fertile. The climate is in general cold and damp, as the summits of some of the higher mountains are covered with snow for several months in the year; but in the valleys the heat in summer is excessive. The principal productions are wheat, barley, oats, rye, maize, hemp, and flax. Cattle, sheep, and goats, are reared in considerable numbers. Chestnuts are very plentiful, and constitute the staple of the food of the people, who by boiling and drying them preserve them throughout the year. The principal rivers are the Dordogne and the Vézère, with its affluent the Corrèze, from which the department takes its name. The department is rich in minerals, as iron, copper, coal, lead, marble, alabaster, porphyry, &c. There are a few small mines of iron and copper, as well as of coal; but the want of facilities for transport renders these of little advantage. The chief articles of manufacture are fire-arms, glass, bricks, leather, coarse woollens, wax candles, and nut oil. The department is divided into three arrondissements, which, with their subdivisions and populations, are as follows:

| Arrondissements | Cantons | Communes | Pop. in 1831 | |-----------------|---------|----------|-------------| | Tulle | 12 | 118 | 138,111 | | Brives | 10 | 101 | 116,640 | | Ussel | 7 | 74 | 66,113 | | Total | 29 | 293 | 320,864 |

The capital is Tulle, containing 10,748 inhabitants.